ANALYSIS: China and Australia started afresh this week — but something is missing
There is always the promise that these leaders can restore their peoples' former glory. But here is the paradox: they can blame the past but they cannot let it go.
Xi Jinping – perhaps even Vladimir Putin – may be willing to talk, to negotiate terms. But they will not – they cannot – negotiate away who they are. There is no price on their identity. Without it, these leaders have no reason for being. The vault of history is sealed shut. It is catalogued in museums. It is commemorated in ceremonies. The West makes a deal with history. That's what the so-called rules-based order is. It is what we make of tragedy, how we pacify and regulate our lives.
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